The Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, has said that the bodies of two siblings aged five and seven, have not been recovered six days after a commercial bus plunged into the river Ovia in Edo State.
Torizone reported that the bus traveling from Lagos to Port Harcourt veered off the highway and plunged into the river on Thursday, September 12, 2024.
The Sector Commander, Edo FRSC, Cyril Mathew disclosed this to newsmen on Tuesday, September 17, while giving update of the accident in Benin City.
Mathew said six persons were rescued alive, two bodies were recovered from the river while more passengers including the two children, a boy and a girl, remain trapped.
The FRSC boss said a total of five bodies had so far been recovered from the river and the village close to it.
He added that the body of a woman was discovered inside the bus when the bus was removed from the river.
"The parents of the children were part of the accident but they survived," he said.
"The driver of the bus was found on Sunday and the family buried him at the bank of the river. Another body that was also found was buried similarly.
"The bodies had floated to a nearby village and were discovered by fishermen who were part of the rescue mission when the accident happened," he added.
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